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  2. Torture chamber - Wikipedia

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    The dungeon had walls 1.5 metres (five feet) thick, double doors and was in complete darkness. No conversation of any type was allowed in the dungeon. [ 23 ] The food allowance for prisoners was less than a penny a day including the profit of the warden while any human refuse was removed every four days.

  3. Dungeon - Wikipedia

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    A dungeon is a room or cell in which prisoners are held, especially underground. Dungeons are generally associated with medieval castles, though their association with torture probably derives more from the Renaissance period.

  4. Five workers killed by ‘unsafe’ wall holding 263 tonnes of ...

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    Birmingham Crown Court was told the wall was ‘decidedly unsafe’ and no one should have been working anywhere near it. Five workers killed by ‘unsafewall holding 263 tonnes of scrap ...

  5. Immurement - Wikipedia

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    Illustration of the execution of Hadj Mohammed Mesfewi. Immurement (from Latin im- 'in' and murus 'wall'; lit. ' walling in '), also called immuration or live entombment, is a form of imprisonment, usually until death, in which someone is placed within an enclosed space without exits. [1]

  6. Defensive wall - Wikipedia

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    A defensive wall is a fortification usually used to protect a city, town or other settlement from potential aggressors. The walls can range from simple palisades or earthworks to extensive military fortifications such as curtain walls with towers, bastions and gates for access to the city. [1]

  7. Durrington Walls - Wikipedia

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    Durrington Walls is the site of a large Neolithic settlement and later henge enclosure located in the Stonehenge World Heritage Site in England. It lies 2 miles (3.2 km) north-east of Stonehenge in the parish of Durrington , just north of Amesbury in Wiltshire .

  8. Washington State Penitentiary - Wikipedia

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    Guards were placed on the facility's walls after two prisoners escaped shortly after it was opened, on July 4, 1887. They only made it a few miles before being recaptured. [ 5 ] There have been several more escapes since, including a seized supply train in 1891, a riot that left nine dead in 1934, [ 6 ] 10 who tunneled under the wall in 1955 ...

  9. The Oath of Kärnan - Wikipedia

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    The Kärnan's dungeon has existed since 2018, [7] which thematically refers to the story already told by Kärnan and also makes a thematic link with the Escape from Novgorod and the previous times of the Visit of the Shadow Creatures with a wall-mapping-show. [6] The dungeon is a room in which disguised actors show the horrors of the dungeon ...